Meditation: Waking up from the Dream (2020-07-25)

Tara Brach

Tara, Dharma, Selfhelp, Talks, Spiritual, Buddhist, Insight, Audio, Tarabrach, Mindfulness, Rain, Psychology, Compassion, Vipassana, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Meditation, Guided, Brach, Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Meditation: Waking up from the Dream (2020-07-25) - We spend many life moments in a virtual reality of thoughts. This guided practice helps us reconnect with our senses and discover in the space between thoughts the light of awareness, the mystery of what we are.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.2	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Welcome friends. Today's guided meditation is called waking up from the dream. And to begin,
0:52.7	make sure you're sitting comfortably. Take a few moments to feel whatever the sitting posture is,
1:02.2	and close your eyes and make whatever subtle adjustments will help you to feel most balanced,
1:08.1	so that you're sitting upright. There's a quality of being alert and also at ease.
1:14.4	You might choose to have your eyes closed, but that's not required.
1:23.8	But bring the attention inwardly so that you're aware of your body and aware of your body breathing right now.
1:31.9	And as you feel this body breathing, you might become aware with the in-breath of a kind of receptivity
1:43.8	that you're receiving the life energy of the moment. It's as if even on a cellular level,
1:53.1	there's an opening to receive like a balloon filling with air. And you might feel through the parts of your body
2:02.3	that kind of an opening to receive. And with the out breath, a letting go, a releasing,
2:15.6	a little bit as the balloon deflates or releases air that there's a releasing of tension or tightness.
2:22.5	So receiving with the in-breath, opening, letting go, releasing, relaxing outward with the out-breath.
2:37.4	And sense the possibility of relaxing deeply with this simple inflow and outflow of the breath.
3:03.0	Continuing feeling that breath in the background, you might let your awareness begin to scan through the body,
3:12.1	letting go of any obvious areas of tension. Tightness in the body is a very physicalized way of resisting the life that's here.
3:24.0	So we're undoing resistance. You might relax the jaw, have a slight smile at the mouth.
3:38.0	Let the eyes be soft and the brow smooth, and let all the little micro muscles in the face settle
3:48.1	at ease. You might allow the shoulders to fall away from the neck,
4:02.7	and let the awareness fill the shoulders so you can feel from the inside out the life that's here.
4:11.3	And if there's tightness or not, in some way, just sense that they could float in awareness,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara Brach, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tara Brach and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.